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Quotes About Currency

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.
~ Venita VanCaspel
Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
~ Haruki Murakami
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
~ J. C. Chandor
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
~ J. C. Ryle
Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.
~ William Somervile
The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
I don't get why the government is the only one that gets to print money.
~ Stephen Colbert
Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?
~ Joanne Greenberg
The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.
~ John L. Casti
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Money makes a man laugh.
~ John Selden
We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.
~ Julian Huxley
On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.
~ Kabir Sehgal
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.
~ Ron Paul
Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.
~ Ron Paul
Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Money often costs too much
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Time is a currency you can only spend once, so be careful how you spend it.
~ Harmon Okinyo
If time is money, how much is a lifetime?
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land